Who are the Scots & The Scottish Nation / Edition 1

by Gordon Menzies

Overview

Two classic books are brought together here. Written history begins with the Romans and that is the starting point for Who are the Scots?. The Celtic-speaking peoples who defied the Romans from their hill forts are recorded by Tacitus in the first century AD. For the next thousand years and more Picts, Britons, Gaels, Angles, Norsemen and Anglo-Normans migrated, fought and inter-married until something like a nation began to emerge at the end of the thirteenth century.The Scottish Nation takes up the story. Against a backdrop of rival dynasties struggling among themselves and against the English, the Scots managed to secure an independence and create a new nation. A turbulent history unfolds: the Stewart dynasty, Mary’s reign, Knox’s Reformation, the union of the crowns under James VI, the clash of loyalties during the years of the Covenanters, Cromwell and Charles II, and the first Jacobite rebellion under William and Mary. The book ends with the story of how the first nation of Scotland came to an end in 1707. The authors include the greatest Scottish historians of our time. This is historical writing at its best – informative, discerning, provoking, entertaining.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781902930381
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	09/04/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gordon Menzies is an independent producer and formerly Head of Educational Broadcasting at BBC Scotland.

Table of Contents

	List of figures	v
	List of plates	vi
	Preface	viii
	Foreword	x
	Acknowledgements	xiii
	Who are the Scots?
1	The Roman Frontier	3
2	The Problem of the Picts	20
3	The Scots of Dalriada	36
4	Britons and Angles	51
5	The Early Christian Church	61
6	The Norsemen	74
7	Anglo-French Influences	85
8	The Making of Scotland	98
	The Scottish Nation
9	Wars of Independence	113
10	Crown in Jeopardy	131
11	Taming the Magnates?	147
12	National Spirit and Native Culture	161
13	Flodden and its Aftermath	177
14	John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots	192
15	James VI and Vanishing Frontiers	206
16	Montrose and Argyll	222
17	Restoration and Revolution	238
18	Union of the Parliaments	252
	Further reading	265
	Index	271

Editorial Reviews

A useful publication to recommend to students, and indeed, to anyone interested in the history of Scotland and the Scottish people before the union.

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